Pursuit into Consciousness

The doctor is preparing to administer an electric shock to the boy.

But the next second, the doctor found that the boy in front of him had become completely unfamiliar. He was nothing like the cowardly little beast who had been abused and didn't even dare to resist. Instead, he seemed like...

A bird.

A monster with Crow's head.

It's as if the creatures from Rusty Lake have come to life.

This immediately reminded the doctor of the Bird-Beaked Man he had just encountered at the Ghost Story Association.

nausea.

That's disgusting!!

"This place is already full."

Do you think I won't make this area my territory?

Zhang Ze's body gradually solidified from the Black Water gushing from the man's body. At this moment, Black Water emerged from every corner of the room, and Zhang Ze had unknowingly allowed the Black Water to permeate the entire hospital building.

He has the ability.

It can be done without any mistakes.

Why risk a mishap?

"You... you're the monster!"

"I have never denied this." Zhang Ze slowly stepped out of the boy's body, and countless Crow emerged from within him, their black feathers fluttering everywhere, like a beast god in the shadows.

Approaching the doctor step by step.

The doctor instinctively took a step back.

"Damn it, I don't believe it!!"

The doctor roared.

Reactivate the stun gun.

The electric current spread outwards from the doctor as the center, and the Crow were electrocuted and turned into Black Water, but it could not fundamentally harm Zhang Ze. One Zhang Ze convulsed and fell down, and a second and a third Zhang Ze emerged from the pool of Black Water.

You yourself will not be subjected to an electric shock.

"Perhaps you were wearing some kind of insulating gear, or..." Zhang Ze narrowed his eyes slightly, "You also have secrets. The thing that turned you from a psychiatrist treating depression into a monster probably came from Behind the Door too."

Xiong Qing, who Third Ward, was also a doctor.

He later became a patient because the monster inside the door had become attached to him.

A doctor doesn't suddenly become insane for no reason.

"Get out of here!!"

The doctor electrocuted the approaching Crow once again.

His eyes revealed undisguised fear.

Even he himself never imagined that he would actually feel fear, that he would feel this bone-chilling cold. He was the one who brought fear to others, but now the tables have turned.

Zhang Ze's two eyes twitched eerily; one was the Ghost Eye, and the other was Qiu Mei's eye. While sealing off the scene, he was also summoning Sadako, preparing to read the doctor's memories.

At the crucial moment.

The doctor gritted his teeth, removed a device from his hand, and inserted a defibrillator into his own skull.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

I won't tell you anything!

"Ah!!"

Zhang Ze:...

Electrocuted?

Zhang Ze never expected things to develop to this point. The doctor was willing to die rather than let Zhang Ze invade his memories, even at the cost of electrocuting himself.

But Zhang Ze still felt a vague unease.

Based on his understanding of doctors, he knew they would never commit suicide easily. They were used to instilling fear in others like demons, and even if they had to fight to the death, they would never choose such a humiliating way to die.

I glanced at the boy who was unconscious on the operating table.

Zhang Ze suddenly remembered a symptom that Doctor Gao had also mentioned to him.

Mass Hysteria.

When people gather to a certain extent, the human instinct to live in a group will overwhelm individual thinking. Once some unknown source of fear occurs, such as if someone starts screaming or running away, it will quickly spread to the entire group, plunging everyone into chaos.

On a small scale, if one student looks up at the sky on the playground, others will also subconsciously look up, and soon a large group of people will be looking up at the sky. On a larger scale, when a stampede occurs, even if everyone knows that people have been trampled to death, they still dare not stop, ultimately causing even larger-scale casualties.

Essentially, Mass Hysteria is a chain reaction triggered by psychological suggestion and collective panic, and it is most common among people who are psychologically sensitive and lack self-confidence.

Zhang Ze saw a whole building full of patients and was still wondering why these people were staying there.

Now he seems to understand.

"Could this guy be using the Behind-the-Door Monster to project some kind of fear into reality?"

Although Zhang Ze didn't know that the doctor had suddenly appeared from the Ghost Story Association, which was dozens of kilometers away, the Crow couldn't find the doctor at first, but the doctor suddenly appeared.

How did the doctor teleport?

The stun gun on the boy's head provided the answer.

The boy was originally strapped to the hospital bed. When the doctor needed to, the device was activated, and an electric shock was applied to the boy's brain. The boy, who usually suffers from PTSD, instantly recalled his past experience of being tortured by the doctor with electric shocks.

When he begins to make connections, the doctor can then appear beside the boy through the object of his fear.

This was just the boy alone.

The boy was unconscious.

But there are still more than a dozen patients in the building, each of whom has experienced the doctor's torment and could become the medium through which the doctor reappears.

If it were Chen Ge, he might truly be at a loss.

But Zhang Ze is different.

"Gah!"

"Gaga gaga gaga!!"

The Black Water instantly transformed into countless Crow, Crow flew into the patients' rooms. The patients stared blankly, completely unaware of what was happening, as the Crow grew Ghost Eye on their faces and stared back at them.

When the patients' eyes met the eyes of the Crow, eyes that were as unsettling as tumors.

Memories began to appear involuntarily in the patient's mind.

Implanting memories.

This is Qiu Mei's ability.

This is further compounded by Sadako's ability to read and modify memories.

Zhang Ze successfully entered the depths of a patient's brain.

In my memory.

This patient's entire history with the Kings was erased, leaving him only with his hands and feet bound to the operating table. In front of him was a doctor in Doctor Uniform, laughing maniacally. The electric shocks sounded like buzzers, simultaneously stimulating his brain.

"Aaaaaaah!!"

"Let me go... I'm not sick, I'm cured, help me!!"

The patient screamed and begged for mercy.

The screams only spurred the doctor to deliver even more electric shocks, the current surging through his cerebral cortex countless times, as if he were not a living person, but some kind of lab rat.

This is his deepest, most feared memory.

For so many years, it has tormented him like a nightmare, turning him into a dazed, living corpse.

This memory has repeated itself countless times, like a revolving lantern.

Countless times.

Until this time.

"Professor Yang, the current level is too high," the doctor's assistant, whom I remember, said as she walked over.

Following the normal flow of memory, the doctor could easily brush off the assistant with a casual remark and then continue the abuse.

"I understand. You can go now. Prepare my dinner for tonight. I want a fine tomahawk steak, medium-rare, with black pepper sauce, and a glass of fine wine."

"..."

"I told you to leave, are you deaf?"

Memory distortion.

The doctor's assistant did not turn and leave.

Instead, she stood quietly at the door, watching the doctor.